Raak Family History
- Raak Name Meaning
- Eastern German: from Sorbian, Polish, Czech, and Slovak rak ‘crab’, presumably applied as a nickname or possibly as a metonymic occupational name for someone who sold shellfish. German: nickname from Middle High German rac ‘taut’, ‘stretched’; ‘busy’, ‘free’. German: from a short form of any of various personal names beginning with Rac-. Shortened form of Dutch van Raak, a habitational name from any of various places named De Raak.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 18,089 Historical Documents with Raak on Ancestry
- 11,486 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,800 Census and Voter Lists
- 547 Military Records
- 482 Immigration Records
- 3,774 Member Trees
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Number of Raak families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Raak census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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